Some birds seem to fill the air with music and melody. Their songs may be joyful, ecstatic, mournful, bubbly, plaintive, eerie or scolding, but most of these can be whistled or sung in imitation. They include simple songs like that of the Eastern Phoebe, complex ones like the Brown Thrasher's, and evocative ones like those of the Common Loon and Red-winged Blackbird.
There are 46 birds you can easily hear and identify who have Musical Songs. The following is a list, in American Ornithologists' Union order, of these birds: